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Cricket coaching camp begins

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On a strong wicket!: A girl wielding the willow during the inaugural of the camp at ACA-VDCA Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Saturday. —

VISAKHAPATNAM: For the next one month as many as 320 young players, including 20 girls, will understand the nuances of the game of cricket, hone their skills and, hopefully, some of them will be put on the track to become big names in the game in future.

The annual summer coaching camp of the Visakhapatnam District Cricket Association, sponsored once again by The Hindu, commenced at the ACA-VDCA Stadium here on Saturday.

It was a formal inaugural ceremony and the camps would be in full measure from Sunday morning at different venues in the city and also at Bheemunipatnam.

Players in the Under-14 and Under-16 age groups along with Under-19 district players have been selected for the camps during trials held earlier. The VDCA has engaged 36 of its coaches, including a woman coach R. Kiranmai, to run the camps.

Chief of Bureau of The Hindu B. Prabhakkar Sharma and Regional General Manager T.V. Suresh inaugurated the camp. Both advised the players to utilise the camps and become good players. The physical training and practice should continue after the camps concluded as exercise would keep one’s body and mind in good shape, they said. Both recalled the contribution of The Hindu to the filed of sports. The organisation is sponsoring an annual prize money tournament and the summer coaching camps here.

Vice-president of VDCA P.R. Narayanaswami presided. Secretary of VDCA K. Parthasaradhi thanked The Hindu for sponsoring the camps regularly for the last several years. VDCA vice-president D. Sanjeev said plans were afoot to conduct league tournaments outside the city. Another vice-president D.S. Varma wanted the trainees to make use of the camps. Joint secretaries G.J.J. Raju and A.P. Naidu also spoke. The camps would be conducted at ACA-VDCA stadium “B” ground, Zinc stadium, GVMC stadium and the Ukku stadium in the city and at Bheemunipatnam.

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